• Central Quotes

Pyramidal Thinking

<aside> 🎓 A pyramid-shaped model of energy management consisting of four types of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Those lower in the pyramid act as the foundations for those that are higher.

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Spiritual Energy [Fourth Layer]

<aside> 🎓 Emerges from understanding and aligning ourselves with our core values

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• Requires us to pursue activities that pull us closer to our core values and passions
  • Creates the strongest form of motivation

Mental Energy [Third Layer]

<aside> 🎓 Emerges from our conscious thoughts: mental energy makes us able to remain focused and disciplined despite distractions and temptations

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Mental energy is what we're lacking when we're physically fit, emotionally stable, yet utterly unable to have a coherent or analytical thought [page 77]

• Requires emotional and physical energy, such that we have the ability to overcome distractions
• Taking Control: A Response to Distractibility
• Tools for Taking Control

Ego Depletion

<aside> 🎓 We have a limited number of thoughts and decisions we can meaningfully analyse — the more we do so, the more fatigued we become.

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• Self-control uses a significant amount of your brain's power reserves, and just exercising it can make functioning noticeably less efficient
• Decision-making, motivating, and self-control all draw from the same energy pool of the prefrontal cortex
• Not necessarily true, but the model of simplifying our lives to provide unnecessary energy expenditure still makes sense